A detailed and angry survey by Daniel Rosehill on Ireland's deranged problem with Israel. As a friend of Israel who lives here, I would be sad to see the embassy shuttered, but I sure understand Israeli anger. danielrosehill.medium.com/israel-please-…

Happy one month birthday to my son Finn! He’s loving it!

This is a dreadful way of dealing with opinions: "You shouldn't say X, because someone sensitive is present who wouldn't want to hear you saying X"

They may look cute, but the matriarchal meerkat society is deadly. discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/m…

Israeli school children lay on the ground & cover their heads during Hezbollah rocket attack this morning which killed a civilian & injured 8 others.Daily attacks by Iran’s terrorist proxies which ⁦Micheál Martin⁩ ⁦Simon Coveney⁩ &@LeoVaradkar don’t condemn. Why?

Tonight our new Chief Rabbi of Ireland was inaugurated ‘Many Jews, especially young children and university students, feel deeply isolated by the portrayal of the current war in Gaza in Irish media and the rhetoric adopted in schools and on campus’ rte.ie/news/2024/0521…

'Please give up this seat if an elderly or infirm person needs it' My latest cartoon for tomorrow's The Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com

I hate Trump, but I hate the Democrats even more for giving him a free invitation back to the White House. What a selfish old bastard Biden has shown himself to be.

I'll probably come to regret saying anything good about this guy, but this is very good, and I'm glad people in the US are saying what isn't said enough in Ireland: vance.senate.gov/press-releases…

I assume this bizarre,effusive embrace of Iran’s tyrannical regime by President Higgins reflects Irish government policy?Iran as the globally acknowledged sponsors of Hamas,Palestinian Islamic Jihad,Hezbollah&Houthi terrorism depicted as contributing to stability & peace? Sick!

Unlikely, IMO, that smoking bans save the state money. This does NOT mean we want people to smoke, but smokers dying younger saves ££ spent on social care, pensions & other healthcare. *This is a rebuttal of the fiscal argument for smoking bans; I am NOT saying smoking is good.*

The "fear center" is a stupid fantasy of bad philosophy, just like the "pleasure center". The mind/brain is the guidance system of its owner, not a pleasure-hungry "consciousness" lured/whacked by carrots/sticks. thetimes.com/uk/science/art…

If assisted dying means some old people will be pressurized into killing themselves, so what? — If I'm present any place where I'm unwelcome, I'd prefer to know that I'm unwelcome. This applies to being alive as much as being a visitor or a guest.

Unless Fine Gael really want to express pride in their fascist origins, this is nowhere near good enough, from her or the rest of them.

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17 November 1946. The Lancastrian’s two Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12 piston engines were shut down, except for take-off and landing and their propellers feathered to reduce drag. It was the first jet-powered passenger transport to fly from one country to another.

The banana isn't the point. The collector paying $6.2 million for a banana taped to a wall isn't paying for a banana. They're paying $6.2 million as a credible signal of their Openness, their 'sophistication', and their conspicuous contempt for traditional beauty, aesthetic

I'd like to think that this is what happens when politics becomes an attempt to alter what people want instead of a "contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants" (i.e. what they want already) rte.ie/news/election-…

There's a movement in Ireland to try to make The Holocaust seem "less Jewish", as if it were a fairly familiar type of historical event that all sorts of people have been subjected to over the centuries. This grossly inappropriate invitation is part of it thejc.com/news/world/jew…

It is as bad as you think it is.